Reference Articles

The online counterpart to the New Grove Dictionary of Music, this reference source contains articles on composers, performers, styles, genres, world music, instruments, and much more. This title is available through Oxford Music Online and can be cross-searched with The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.

Over 100 full text language and subject dictionaries and reference works. Topics covered include general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities, social sciences, and business.

You also may want to search the library's online catalog to find out what reference books are in our collection. Our reference books have "REF" at the beginning of the call number and a location of "Doane University Reference."

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Books in the Reference section

Here are a few of the resources available in the Reference section of the library, located on the main level in the Learning Commons:

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 1
by Garland Encyclo

Call Number: REF ML100 .C69 2008

ISBN: 9780415994033

Publication Date: 2008-09-19

The Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues
by Keith Shadwick

Call Number: REF ML102.J3 S5 2001

ISBN: 9780785817628

Publication Date: 2004-03-01

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
by Colin Larkin (Editor)

Call Number: REF ML102.P66 G84 1998

ISBN: 1561592374

Publication Date: 1998-11-01

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Call Number: REF ML105 .B16 2001

ISBN: 0028655257

Publication Date: 2000-12-22

American Musical Traditions

Call Number: REF ML3551 .A53 2002

ISBN: 002864624X

Publication Date: 2001-10-24

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